Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1920 — IS NEW ASSISTANT ADJUTANT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IS NEW ASSISTANT ADJUTANT

RwaaU G- Crovlston, Who Has Soon Much Aottvo Service, Is Appointed to Important PooKlefi. Russell G. Creviston, who has been appointed assistant national adjutant

of the American Legion by .F. W. Galbraith, Jr., national commander, was director of organisation at, national headquarters from November, 191®, to October, 1920. > A* Hootier by birth. Mr. Creviston enlisted in May, 1917, in company E of the

Fourth Indiana infantry. He served as a private in this company for three months when. he was selected as a candidate from his company to the second officers’ training camp, at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. After his graduation from the camp ho was given complete charge of the administration co-ordination section of the general staff of the eighty-fourth division. 1 Mr. Crevioton assisted in the organmotion of a vocational training system, and Inakis connection was transferred to the inspector's division and given charge of the states of lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, where he established various student army training corps. After the completion ®f the 8. A. T. O. movement, Mr. Crevioton was transferred to the general staff and put in charge Of the ninth district commission on training camp activities. With the rank of captain he covered nine states of the Middle West in the interest of bettering camp and non-camp cities during the deipobillxation period. He was discharged' June 7,1919, and accepted a position in the Community Service, Ine of New York, which loans his services to the American Legton.